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VisionShiftStudios - Games and Media for Social Change - About Us
 

 
 

Corwin Bell
Chief Designer and Artistic Director

Corwin Bell has over 18 years experience in multimedia production and was a key player as Creative Director for the first ever CD-Rom interactive game, The PageMaster, for Turner Interactive.
While studying at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, Corwin Bell realized that computer animation was a format he could use to manifest the transformative ideas and images that later materialized in his three The Journey to Wild Divine video games. After graduating with honors and earning a Masters degree in Visual Communications from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Bell worked on several films and TV Commercials, where he did set design and cinematography. Some of which include Asteroid, Spirit Dog and Ford Car, Miller Beer and Nintendo. Bell has also worked on children’s software, including Super Safe Kids, a CD-Rom game that teaches awareness of abduction issues in a fun, animated environment. He also became an instructor at the Art Institute of Colorado. Throughout this period, Bell envisioned combining a computer program with biofeedback so that players could not only see the immediate impact of their thoughts and emotions, but also access their innate creative power of visualization. Eventually, in creating his three games for The Journey to Wild Divine series, Bell designed a training program wherein players can actually experience states of being in such a way that they can feel authentically empowered to positively influence their world. Wired magazine dubbed the first Wild Divine game the "Anti-Video Game" because of its focus on healthful, non-violent entertainment. Then Bell formed the production company, VisionShiftStudios, and the first project was an 18 minute high definition experiential film, Sacred Water. This film expands on the experiential alchemy he created in the Wild Divine journeys.


 

Karen Sadenwater
Interactive Media Project Manager / Special FX Artist

Karen Sadenwater graduated in 1990 from Ball State University with a major in Fine Arts and a minor in photography. With a love for art, designing, and photography that satisfied her soul, Sadenwater soon became intrigued with digital interactive media. This led to a second degree in 1997 from Denver's Colorado Institute of Art in computer animation, a field in which she now has over 12 years experience. She is an expert in developing interactive media, ranging from animation and media-rich internet sites to biofeedback training games. As Corwin Bell's Project Manager on the Wild Divine project, Sadenwater managed their core creative team as well as contract artists, actors, and musicians. She also coordinated creative content with technical programming; collaborated on the overall design; created unique special effects visuals; organized and collaborated all filming, voice recording, and script writing for all characters in the program. For all projects at VisionShift Studios, Karen continures video compositing, special effects and project management.

 

Bryan Mayner
Senior Production and Animation Artist

Bryan Mayner is a graduate of the Art Institute of Colorado with a Bachelors degree in Media Arts and Animation. From 2002 to 2006, he accumulated five years of experience as senior production and animation artist for the Wild Divine project. Mayner used his skills in graphics and 3D software applications to bring to life visual content that enhanced the overall product quality of three nationally and internationally successful multimedia games. These games have achieved recognition in both the medical and health/wellness professions. Mayner specializes in using professional applications (latest Versions) of Autodesk 3DS Max, Adobe AfterEffects, and Adobe Photoshop. He recently did contract work with Boulder's Vision Shift Studios for ten months, completing the "Sacred Water" museum exhibition, currently on display and presented by the Museum of Outdoor Art in Boulder, Colorado.
   
 

Jan P. Delany
Interactive Developer / Lead Programmer and Software Architect

Following undergraduate work at the University of Colorado, Jan P. Delany has over thirteen years of experience in developing interactive media -- everything from short turnaround to multi-year projects. He has acquired a wealth of knowledge, ranging from creating and editing content to software design. Primarily, Delany has been responsible for programming, producing unique and beautiful products, finding elegant solutions to complex issues, and assuring an exciting, trouble-free experience for the end user. As part of the Wild Divine team, Delany's tasks included developing initial and primary software; establishing and implementing the software functionality; developing requirements and testing procedures for new biofeedback hardware; developing biofeedback analysis algorithms to drive gaming elements of the software; managing contract programmers; building software installers and producing masters for replication. Jan is also a seasoned developer for iPhone apps.
   
 

Michael Kazanjian
Interactive Media Project Manager

Michael Kazanjian earned his Ph.D. in French literature 2010 from Emory University. Michael originally worked at Mammoth Productions in 1993 with Corwin as Project Manger for The PageMaster. He was responsible for coordination of all the graphical content of the project, including a catalog of all the animated images available for use in the game version of the movie. His time in graduate school was split between a deep exploration of a seventeenth-century literary milieu and modern library work at the intersection of technology and teaching. He co-originated and managed the French Course Material Exchange project which continues to serve as the sharing source of undergraduate course content at Emory. He also designed, managed and began the implementation of Emory’s online, searchable French Revolution Pamphlet Collection. He is currently managing VisionShift Studio’s two ongoing projects: VRDC and Secrets of Meditation (forthcoming, 2011).

   
 

Michael Verdick
Producer/Audio Engineer

Michael Verdick is a thirty-year veteran of the recording industry with Gold and Platinum awards and contributions to the sales of over twenty-six million records. His engineering, producing and mastering credits include Madonna, Ambrosia, Ted Nugent, Larry Carlton, Breakfast Club, The Eagles, Poco, Keith Moon, Juice Newton, The Jets, Toy Matinee, Jay Ferguson, The Yellow Jackets, Bob Welch, Al Jarreau, Steel Pulse, London Beat, Roger McGuinn and Love. During his tenure at Record Plant Los Angeles he worked with John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Harry Nielsen, Sly Stone, Dan Fogelberg, The Tubes and Joe Walsh.
Movie/TV/Soundtrack credits include Terminator, Beverly Hills Cop II, Ali, Live For Ireland, Miami Vice II and Spirit.